Day: June 30, 2014

I was a bit nervous going into this workout, being that it calls for the heaviest weights on bench for the entire training block. The day off from benching last Friday helped, as my elbow was not feeling too achy (still has a ways to go before it is feeling 100%), and pressing felt real strong. The 40lb jump to 360 from 320 seemed daunting so I took an intermediary double at 340, which was easy. Ended up hitting the 3 doubles at 360 without any troubles. Only 10lbs off my paused 1rm PR, and I am pretty confident I could have done 375-380 today, even with the bad elbow.

After bench I gave squats a go. Hip was hurting a lot on warmups so I put on my single-ply briefs. These are meant for wide-stance squats/deads and not narrow stance squats and really messed with my dynamics, trying to pitch me forward on each rep while offering no rebound/assistance, but they kept my hip tight and that allowed me to push things a bit. 550 for a double is by no means special, but I was happy with it considering everything. Finished with some light curls and flyes, then some heavy-ish olympic GMs.